Well he did refrain from calling Lady Gaga an "ugly broad"… ...or suggesting that Anderson Cooper should go to one of Marcus Bachmann's "pray away the gay" clinics… …but he did begin by "humorously" getting the crowd to applaud racism...

This is the Family Research Council: "Who do you think is ultimately behind the efforts to advance the radical homosexual agenda, indoctrinate our children, and ruin our military, now? Who's behind the efforts to get God out of government, Christ...

Or at least he would say what I suggest in the headline if he, the man who failed to stop equality in Massachusetts, were honest about his state's lay of the land over the past seven years. But of course...

Whenever marriage equality comes up before the New Jersey state legislature, the man who teams up with the National Organization For Marriage—and who even claims to have helped launch NOM with his donor rolls—is NJ Family Policy Council head Len...

The American Family Association boycotts any piece of entertainment or business that so much as acknowledges LGBT reality. The AFA's main spokesperson these days is Bryan Fischer, one of the most incendiary political voices working today. Liberty Counsel has never...

Voter turnout for this, an off-year primary held on a Thursday (due to 9/11 observances), was unbelievably sluggish. Disappointingly sluggish for a New York politico like myself. But I digress. My point in mentioning the turnout is to say that...

09/13/2012

As his work with a local public high school, Noe Lara certainly seems committed to the concept of equality: It's just a shame that this very same Noe Lara doesn't seem to think that this "for all" concept he champions...

On the eve of the Values Voter Summit (so-called), the host of that summit, Tony Perkins, sits down with his pal Harry Jackson and CBN host David Brody for a verbal onslaught against same-sex-headed families. Most of it you've heard...

Continuing his site's newfound mission of "proving" that the Oval Office is really little more than an oversized closet, WND columnist Erik Rush is now intimating that this…. …was really some sort of reencounter between a married President and his...

The American Family Association's OneNewsNow site continues the now-prevalent far-right trend of suggesting that a Democratic victory in November will bring forth the wrath of a certain man upstairs. And no, by man upstairs, I don't mean that schmuck on...

Marylanders for Marriage Equality has issued a memo to the media noting some of the tried and (un)true tactics that the National Organization For Marriage—working in tandem with the organization's well-compensated political director, Frank Schubert—has used in the past, as...

The non–New York–based National Organization For Marriage has done us all a service, letting us know who on today's primary ballot supports its discriminatory cause. This is the the list that NOM wants you to support, in hopes that the...

09/12/2012

When you watch the following video, you'll see a wedding party being silly. Family, friends, lip syncing—the whole deal. It's exactly what a group of young people should be doing during that time in life when the world is yours...

And now, Family Research Council president Tony Perkins takes a break from his career built around stopping or taking away every single right and/or protection for LGBT people so that he can make this aggressively self-unaware claim: Reminder of just...

The Southern Poverty Law Center's president, J. Richard Cohen, on the disturbing politicking that prominent Republicans will engage in starting tomorrow: U.S. Rep. Paul Ryan and House Majority Leader Eric Cantor should be embarrassed. Why? Because they're lending the prestige...

This from Protect Marriage Maine (so-called) head Bob Emrich: The Rev. Bob Emrich, chairman of Protect Marriage Maine, which opposes same-sex marriage, said ‘‘radical activists’’ are putting their own interest ahead of children. ‘‘The data confirms what we know to...

This is why he is in the news today: Florida Pastor Terry Jones' Latest Stunt Tied To Attacks In Egypt and Libya, Where U.S. Ambassador Killed [Miami News Times] This is how he is better known to equality activists like...

Despite her listing on the schedule, Ann Romney will not speak at the Family Research Council's Value Voters Summit (beginning Friday). A smart and obvious choice, considering the level and intensity of FRC"s rhetoric. However, this is actually an anomaly...

This is the second or third such "story" that the far-right, anti-LGBT site has bannered in recent weeks: Article: WND For its years-long "birther" campaign, the site demanded to see the President's birth certificate. Not sure what proof they need...

It's pretty disturbing to see the way so many New York Republicans have signed on to the National Organization for Marriage' agenda of making marriage equality the number one issue of this election season. This one comes from Kathy Marchione,...

09/11/2012

The National Organization for Marriage took two booths. The "ex-gay" PFOX group gets one. Check the list to see what other aggressively anti-LGBT orgs will be filling the swag bags at this weekend's Values Voter Summit: **EARLIER: Ann Romney joins...

I'll say one thing about Terry Turner, president of the Southern Baptists of Texas Convention: at least he owns the inner, anti-gay stirrings that most on his side of this political conversation are less willing to admit: FULL VIDEO: Terry...

I love that Ellen picked up on this, one of the summer's most inspiring stories: (H/t: Towle) Be a kind human. No, you probably will not be handed an oversized check by America's favorite lesbian talk show host. But then...

After demonizing "The New Normal" (premiering tonight!) and LGBT acceptance in general, career foe-of-the-'mos Peter Labarbera and reliably outrageous talk show host Janet Mefferd shared this exchange about the 2012 presidential race: Janet Mefferd: What it comes down to Peter...

From Joseph Backholm, one of the leaders of the so-called Preserve Marriage Washington coalition: In the Garden of Eden, before sin entered the world, the serpent asked Eve, “Did God really say that if you eat of the tree of...

Have six bucks? A naked body part in need of some rubber? A bizarre insistence in the supposed credibility of a movement and idea that has no credible backing? If you answered yes to the above, then you're in look,...

From the National Organization For Marriage's Facebook wall: Ooh, look at that scary question mark. Although I gotta say, I really think they missed a multimedia opp. here. A scary "dum dum dum" sound effect would've really driven home the...

I most know Franciscan University of Steubenville from a speech that Maggie Gallagher delivered to its student body back in the spring of 2010. Now the school scores a new blip on the "culture war" radar: The Franciscan University of...

They don't seem to have publicized it at all, and someone else seems to have snatched up the preferred "Dump [insert company]" domain name. But it does seem that the National Organization For Marriage is quietly telling people to cancel...

The updated schedule for the Value Voters Summit is now up. Look at who will round out the first morning [Full Schedule] So basically, this chunk will begin with the host of this little party, a man who says stuff...

In two different marriage fights in Maine, I've watched those on the so-called "Protect Marriage" side tout the following language as if its is some longheld, God-ordained verbiage to which the state is forever bound. This latest reference comes from...

This video, from the team fighting to change Minnesota's constitution so that it expressly bans same-gender couples from *CIVIL* marriage equality, is jaw-dropping in its insistence on turning all marriages into religious marriages: Forfeit your own civil marriage licenses and...

At an FRC "let's tell Christians to vote Republican this fall by using coded language that never actually uses the word Republican" press conference held yesterday in Charlotte, anti-equality activist Harry Jackson said the following as Tony Perkins, Rick Santorum,...

The "pro-family" crowd's capacity for hypocrisy knows no bounds: Just to recap: Marriage equality for same-sex couples is something that fairly passed through Washington state's people-elected legislature. The legislatively approved bill was then signed by the people-elected Governor. It could,...

Gay characters on primetime television are now not only accepted and normal—they are actually common enough to be convention. Per The New York Times' Alessandra Stanley: Gay marriage may not be the law of the land, but it has become...